by AF 0816 b5 — August 24, 2009—Turner Construction Company, a leading builder of healthcare facilities, reported that its combination of building information modeling (BIM) and lean construction practices on the 555,000-square-foot. Middle Tennessee Medical Center (MTMC) in Murfreesboro, Tenn., resulted in $3 million in savings below the owner’s initial target at the beginning of the project, and an additional projection of nearly $1 million in savings from BIM-enabled prefabrication alone by the end of the project.
Construction of the medical center is also on track to be completed two months early, says Turner Construction Co. The 286-bed regional hospital, which will feature 10 operating rooms, 27 postpartum rooms and 40 emergency department rooms, will be substantially completed in May 2010 largely due to Turner’s implementation of a lean construction approach enhanced by the use of building information modeling as a visual and data-rich work planning tool.
In the early planning stages of the project, the team decided to pursue a Lean approach to minimize waste and increase efficiencies throughout the life of the project. Applying the slogan of “build digitally first,” Turner is achieving large percentages of pre-fabrication on major components of the building systems through a comprehensive digital coordination process. Subcontractors are using their trade BIM’s to visually “prototype” all aspects of their work in detail long before fabrication or construction even starts.
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